Volume 23 Number 3Spring 2017

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CONFERENCES: Our first 2017 Psychohistory Forum Work-In-Progress Seminar starts on March 25, 2017, when Irene Javors (Yeshiva University and private practice) will present “Do Ask, Do Tell: Contemporary Questions for Psychohistorians and Psychobiographers.” Our November 5, 2016 presidential election seminar was held at the Lincoln Center Campus of Fordham University with presenters Herbert Barry (University of Pittsburgh), Ken Fuchsman (University of Connecticut), and Paul Elovitz (Ramapo College). At the same location, our January 28, 2017 meeting on Freud’s Death Instinct in Our Era of Suicide and Suicidal Terrorism involved a panel of Inna Rozentsvit, Jack Schwartz, and Paul Elovitz. Harold Takoosian was our Fordham host. Additional seminars will be announced as details are finalized after papers are submitted and accepted. As usual, Jacques Szaluta (Merchant Marine Academy) will serve as moderator. Proposals are welcome and will be vetted by a committee once a presentation paper is submitted. Announcements and papers are sent out electronically to Psychohistory Forum members. Our members who presented at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) at Rutgers University on October 13-15, 2016 included C. Fred Alford, Ruth Lijtmaer, Billie Pivnick, and Burton Norman Seitler. Upcoming meetings of various organizations include the University of California’s Psychoanalytic Consortium at the Arrowhead UCLA Conference Center on March 31-April 2, 2017; the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis (NAAP) in the late fall 2017; the IPA conference is on May 31-June 2, 2017 at New York University; the International Society for Political Psychology’s (ISPP) conference on June 29-July 2, 2017 in Edinburgh,

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Scotland; and the Interdisciplinary Conference of the Forum for Psychoanalytic Education (IFPE) on November 9-11, 2017 in Lago Mar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

CONGRATULATIONS: To Norman Simms on the publication of Jews in an Illusion of Paradise Dust and Ashes, Volume One Comedians and Catastrophes Cambridge Scholars Press in the UK (2017). To Molly Castelloe and Trevor Pederson for winning Gravida Awards of the NAAP. We welcome new members Christine Good and Jack Schwartz. ERRATA: In the fall 2016 issue, book review author Susan Kassouf’s degree should have been listed as a PhD, not an MA, and regrettably Nick Duffell’s name was misspelled.

OUR THANKS: To our members and subscribers for the support that makes Clio’s Psyche possible. To Benefactors Bill Argus, Peter Barglow, Herbert Barry, Tom Ferraro, Peter Loewenberg, Jamshid Marvasti, and Mary Peace Sullivan; Patrons Fred Alford, Eva Fogelman, Ken Fuchsman, David Lotto, Alice Lombardo Maher, and Jacques Szaluta; Sustaining Members Dick Booth, George W. Brown, Ruth Ljitmaer, Allan Mohl, and Candace Orcutt; Supporting Members Valerie Rose Brinton, Donald Carveth, Paul H. Elovitz, Christine R. Good, Jay Gonen, Susan Gregory, John J. Hartman, Merrill Hawkin, Marcie Newton, Mena & Dominic Potts, Inna Rozentsvit, Jack Schwartz, and Hanna Turken; and Members Michael Britton, David Cifelli, Dan Dervin, Ted Goertzel, and Bonnie Oglensky. Our special thanks for thought-provoking materials to Richard Booth, Matthew H. Bowker, Don Carveth, David Cifelli, Paul H. Elovitz, Tom Ferraro, Claudia Frank, Ken Fuchsman, Juhani Ihanus, Jamshid A. Marvasti, Allan Mohl, Candace Orcutt, Peter W. Petschauer, Joseph G. Ponterotto, Billie Pivnick, Anton Power, Joyce M. Rosenberg, Inna Rozentsvit, Paul Salstrom, Jack Schwartz, and Norman Simms. To Caitlin Gaynor for editing, proofing, and Publisher 2016 software application, Nicole D’Andria and David Cifelli for editing and proofing, and Professor Paul Salstrom and Kimberly Lanholm for proofing. Our special thanks to our authors, editors, and numerous overworked referees who must remain anonymous.

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